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Vedanta's India bauxite mining to begin by October

Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:49am EDT

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NEW DELHI, July 10 (Reuters) - Vedanta Resources Plc (VED.L) said bauxite mining for its alumina plant in eastern India would begin by October and the company would invest $1.23 billion to expand its capacity sixfold by 2011.

"Mining operations in the Niyamgiri hills to feed our plant in Orissa will start by October this year," Mukesh Kumar, chief executive of Vedanta's project in the eastern state of Orissa, said on Friday. (Reporting by Bappa Majumdar; Editing by Bryson Hull and Clarence Fernandez)



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